Improvement in corn-harvesters



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IMPROVEMENT lN CORN-HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 19,716, dated March 23, 1858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS A. RISHER, of Uircleville, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Harvesters5 and I do hereby declare that the following` is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Ihe nature ot" my invention consists in the arrangement of the devices hereinafter mentioned for the purpose of shocking corn, as will be described.

In order that others skilled in the arts may construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Iii the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure l represents a plan view of the machine. Fig. 2is a back elevation. Fig. 3 is a view detached ot' the devices for receiving and shocking the corn.

In Fig. 1, A represents the driving-wheel of the machine. This wheel, being provided with cogs on its side, connects `with the shaft B by means of the bevel-wheel C on shaft B, and imparts motion to it by meansof said wheel U. B is the main driving-shaft of the ma chine, and, as will be seen, is provided at one end with a dbuble crank and at the other with themin differentdirections. c is abelt which passes over a pulley on shaft B and around the pulley marked 0 on shaftcl. This belt e serves to drive the perpendicular shaft d., c c c c are arms attached to shaft d, and are for the purpose of drawing the corn into the knives. These arms have an inclined set, and draw in any stalks of the corn which may have fallen or been bent downward. a a are the cutters,

which are operated by means of the small pitmen f and g. b b are guides on each side ot the cutters for thepnrpose of guiding straggling stalks into the cutters. N is the tongue of the machine. H is an endless belt, which passes around shafts or rollers G and/P. This belt is provided with pins, as seen in Fig. 2, for the purpose of conveying the corn from the position iii-which it falls to the concave shocker I. I is a concave into which the corn falls from the endless belt. K is a concave support upon which I rests. M is also a support. L is a strap secured to the back of co'ncave I, said strap` being pivoted or hinged to support K, as seen in this figure. J is acon- -cave lever-clamp, which is secured to concave I, and is for the purpose of pressing the cornstalks when they fall into the concave and holding them in position until ready'to drop them in shock form from the concave.

In Fig. 2, A is the driving-wheel of the inachine. A is one wheel on which the machine rests and moves. D is a band which connects the pulleys E and F, and by means ol' which motion is conveyed to the endless belt H. H is the endless belt for conveying the corn to the concave I after it has been cut. It lt are pins on the endless belt H. t is a perpendicular guide against which the corn rests after being cut until carried away by the pins on the endless belt. One portion ot' the concave rest K is in the form seen at Z in this figure, and has two bearings on dilferent sides of the wheel A' in the uprights, marked m m. I is the concave shocker. L is the metal strap, secured to the back of it, and J is the concave leverclamp, secured, las seen, to I;

Fig. 3 represents the shocker in position for dropping the corn from the machine in shock form.

In the operation of this machine, the horses being attached in front at the tongue N and the mac-bine set iu motion, Wheel A, Figs. l and 2, gives motion to shaft B by means of bevel-wheel O, and shaft B, it will be seen, by means of its pulleys and cranks, gives motion to the endless belt, to the shaft d, with its gathering-arms c c, and to the two cutter-bars by means of the short pitmenf and g. The corn, being gathered into the cutters by the arms o c c c, is cut by the knives tt tt and falls back upon thev endless belt and against the guide i. being perpendicular, the corn falls against the guide and is kept in a straight position, to be carried away by the pins on the endless belt. The corn being carried -up on the endless belt, and the concave shocker I being directly un- The belt being inclined and the guide der the upper end of the belt, it falls into 'the shocker from the belt, and remains there until suicient accumulates to form a shock. The machine is then stopped, and the clamp-lever J broughtin the position seen in Fig. 2. By means of this lever the head of the shock is conipressed and may be bound. When it is desired to deposit the shock upon the ground the rest K is made to assume the position seen -in Fig. :5, the lever J holding the shock in the concave until it takes'aperpendicular position with the butts down, ready for dropping. The leveris then loosened and the shock falls about a foot, and thus settles it firmly on the ground. The

shocker is always high enough from the ground to admit ot' its swinging around clear of the stubble and to settle the shock Well b'y its fall. i

VIt will be seen thatV the 'shocker or the strap secured to the shocker is hinged to the rest K so as to admit of the shock swinging around behind and out of the Way of the machine when it is to` be deposited on the ground.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure b Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the concave shocker I, clamp-lever J, and rest K with relation to cutters aa, inclined arms c c e c, belt H, and guide z', the Whole being constructed and operated in the manner and for-the purpose herein set forth.

T. A. RISHER. Witnesses:

C. M. ALEXANDER, T. H. ALEXANDER. 

